Orienting Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

How is Tokyo a city of thirty million people so safe that sixyearold children commute to school on their own Why are there no trashcans in Japanese cities Why are Ganesha idols in Japanese temples hidden from public view Globetrotting journalist Pallavi Aiyar moves to Japan and takes an indepth look at the island country including its culinary sanitary and floral idiosyncrasies Steering through the many misadventures that come from learning a new language imbibing new cultural etiquette and asking difficult questions about race Aiyar explores why Japan and India find it hard to work together despite sharing a long civilizational history Part travelogue part reportage Orienting answers questions that have long confounded the rest of the world with Aiyars trademark humour Tackling both the significant and the trivial the quirky and the quotidian here is an Indians account of Japan that is as thoughtprovoking as it is charming